Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, gives an overview of Cisco’s virtualization solution strategy to enable businesses to deliver a network platform that is agile, secure and extensible. The end-to-end virtualization solution delivers the ability to provision, change and grow network services based on rapidly changing user demands and needs for internally hosted and externally hosted business services

Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, explores the openness of the eNFV solution, showing how every layer of the solution stack is exposing the APIs. Support for 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and application workloads running on NFVIS is explained. The session also introduces the 3rd party Ecosystem support process, which provides the environment for ENFV certified 3rd party VNFs.

Miles Davis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how the company plans to use virtualization, switching fabrics, VNFs, and orchestration to manage security policy at the edge of enterprise networks. This includes going through some of the use cases that SAE has to offer including SaaS, IaaS, Private Cloud, and Extranet connectivity.